Road Trip to Meet My Bloggers:)

The girls and I took a road trip to meet Brooke and Libba in Storm Lake! This was the first time I got to meet Taylor and Luke in person. I have to say in person b/c I feel  like I have know them since they were born since we have the the wonderful world of blogging:) We had a great day to meet and the girls had a great time!

 It was a good thing the ground was made of rubber b/c little miss Cora had a tumble after spinning round and round on a chair. It was one of those moments that you had to be there to really appreciate the fall:) She bounced right back!

Cooling off at the Beach

Playing with our new friend Taylor

 It was soo good to see these fine Young ladies:) It has been at least 2 years since I have seen Libba and Brooke and  I could not even remember, maybe the Sports Column or Field house shaking our booty back in 1999:) God that sounds so long ago! Even though it had been that long it seemed like we just saw each other yesterday! We had a great time and it was worth the trip!

Note Kendal with the Senior picture pose or sports pose, all she needs is a soccer ball:)

Camping with the Niemeier's

We did our annual camping with the Niemeier's at Scharnberg park near Everly again this weekend. We had a great weather and a great time!

Cousin Chloe and Aunt Kimmie

Playing at the Park

 Kendal showing Grandma how to run our new Ipod touch amazing how much those little ones know what to do!

Pushing Chloe in the stroll

Cora helping play the bean bag game

 The girls watching Ruger swim in the lake making sure he is ok.

Ready for the Beach

The girls with Mason's fish:)

The cousins

Proud Grandparents with all the kids!

All the big kids with their lovers:)



The girls were practicing a dance they were going to perform for us when Daddy tried to be sneaky and get a quick picture of them. As you can hear Kendal scold her dad for peeking on them:) I told him the first of many scoldings from his daughter:)

This was their final performance!

1st Day of Pre School

Kendal at school with some of her classmates

Today was Kendal's First Day of Pre School at Harris Lake Park! We had the preschool pot luck where we met her classmates and teachers! Chad and I got to spend our 8th anniversary at the preschool potluck:) We had a great time checking out her locker and classroom. She shares a locker with a boy named Billy and has 11 in in her class! We were a little nervous about how things would go today since the teachers home visit did not so good on Monday morning...Kendal was not herself and sat on the couch and pouted and would not cooperate for them. Not the case today! She got ready no problems and went right to school with a big smile on her face!!!

I was soo proud of her! she didn't even give me a hug and kiss good bye she was so excited.

Kendal lining up to go to the class room

 Kendal got to ride the school bus to her daycare house, Daddy was there to greet her and take some pics!

At home with her sis after her 1st day!

Trip to the Cites

We went on a road trip to the cities with Daddy on Thursday. Daddy had to go back to school for some cont. education so we went along for the ride.  The road trip started it out with a little treat in the car, yes that is a giant ice cream drumstick:) Surprisingly she did really good with it, not mess and she ate the almost the entire thing on her own!

Cora being a goof ball in the car.

 While Daddy was at his school the girls and I did some shopping and went to a park in the cities.  It was a beautiful summer night!

 Once Dad was done with classes we all headed to the horse races!! As you can see Kendal was a little excited! Next time we need to bet some money and have Kendal pick the horses, b/c she predicted Horse #6 that won the race!

 The girls with Daddy up close watching the races!

 Off to the hotel for a little swimming!

 On Friday before we left we went to a big indoor park that had a huge play park and a gym for the girls to play in.  They must have had fun b/c they slept for most of the way home. We had lunch before we left for home, Cora had top put on a nice performance for everyone in Red Lobster... yes we were the family with the 2 year old under the table crying and throwing a fit...little stinker. She definitely knows how to put on a good show. She was asleep in the car before we got on the interstate.

Kendal starts preschool next week so this was our last little getaway for while since the baby will be here soon also!!

Rally and Riding Horses

Last night I went to Holstein to golf in the Rally for the Cure Golf Tourney with Mom and my sisters. It was a lot of fun and great to see soo many people! We had great weather and a great time!!

Chad's mom, sisters and Kristi's friend

 Tonight it was a beautiful summer night so we went out to our friend John's house to ride horses. Tonight Cora was all about the horses and got on all by herself for the first time!!! Then when it was time to go she didn't want to get off. The pictures are hard to really appreciate the true beauty of John's farm!!

Cora helping John feed the horses.